Quantity.
Any number of people can be reading from a given repository at a time.
An abstract entity used to describe quantity.
Zero, one, −1, 2.5, and pi are all numbers.
Something that numbs.
To total or count; to amount to.
I don’t know how many books are in the library, but they must number in the thousands.
comparative form of numb: more numb
From Middle English number, nombre, numbre, noumbre, from Anglo-Norman noumbre, Old French nombre, from Latin numerus (“number”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *nem- (“to divide”). Compare Sater...
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To limit to a certain number; to reckon (as by fate) to be few in number.
The old man knew that his days were numbered.
To count; to determine the quantity of.
The king ordered that all his subjects be numbered.